<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Paul, if I may suggest, to better simulate a realistic situation - especially on the grands - you really need to include an agraffe on your jig. How else are your students going to get practice getting that big coil through the those tiny little holes in the agraffe?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The first time I was faced with that situation was on a real piano - I wish I had the opportunity to have practiced that maneuver prior to facing it in a client's home.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Terry Farrell</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>PS: <FONT size=5><STRONG> ;-)</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV>Here at the school I made 6 jigs in about an hour for our students from pieces of pinblock material, 8" x 24" with a tuning pin toward one end as the hitch (anything else would pull out and it just means that you have to make your single-loop bigger to adapt, not a bad attitude to have), and two pins offset toward the front. In between, I created a large half-round from a 1 1/2" dowel for a bearing surface at the front, and a smaller half-round from a 3/4" dowel as a rear bearing surface. There are no agraffes, but it's plenty like a stringing reality to get the job done; splicing in the non-speaking length is just as tricky. The jigs are clamped flat to mimic grands, and double-clamped vertically to mimic uprights so that students get to figure out the differences between wirebend strategies for the two. If you want a picture let me know.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Paul</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>